I am also thankful for the small town community where people stop and help when they see someone in need. My little car is not exactly a winter vehicle, but it's cute (when it's clean). I tried unsuccessfully to get out of the end of my driveway a few weeks ago when my little car was planted firmly in the edge of a snowbank. I was about to give up when a guy in a red pickup slowed and looked questingly at me. I emphatically nodded yes, I need help. He threw a tow rope under my bumper and did in less than a minute what I had been trying to do for almost 30 minutes.

As a child, Jason Grover was an active and happy boy, according to his mother, Janet Grover. He enjoyed being out in nature, including camping. Mental health issues have been making the headlines for a while. About 50 percent of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition sometime in their life. Half of those people will develop their condition by age 14, according to mentalhealthmn.org. The symptoms of major depression usually begins in the mid-20s, and the average age at onset for a first manic episode is the early 20s.

The Zoomobile featured a variety of creepy crawlies as well as a chicken. Children were convinced to touch a huge hissing cockroach after an adult demonstrated how it was done. It felt hard, like a dresser or desk. Other options were a fuzzy tarantula, a docile bearded dragon and a 10-inch black African millipede with its little legs in constant motion.

Wish is a high-energy golden Labrador mix who loves to work and is the only accelerant detection K9, or "arson dog," in Minnesota. According to Maki, Wish was originally training to be a guide/assistance dog, but she was too high-energy. She transferred to Maine Specialty Dogs, where she met Maki.

When she drives for Uber, she places a lit sign in the corner of her windshield so the riders can locate her vehicle. The riders app shows a photo of the driver, make and model and licence plate of the vehicle. The riders cite the price difference between Uber and Lyft as the most common reason they choose Lyft.

Gail Marie Thompson, 64, was sentenced Jan. 23 in Carlton County's Sixth Judicial District Court of felony first-degree sale of 10 grams or more of heroin. According to the statement of probable cause, several law enforcement agencies worked together on an extensive drug investigation for almost a year that resulted in the arrest of Thompson on March 1.